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Author : Richard S. Prosser
Publisher : Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Herit
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 14,69 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
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Reprint. Originally published by Dillon Press in 1966.
Author : Richard Prosser
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : Anne J. Aby
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 41,10 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Minnesota
ISBN : 0873516877
Author : John Firth
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 25,65 MB
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1039194346
“He was a man who had a purpose when he came among our people. He was very gentle with his purpose. He had a vision. He saw we had something that nobody else did. He gave us gifts which we remember to this day and still use. He changed us. He changed us for the better.” —Raymond Yakeleya, residential school survivor, filmmaker, Dene Elder Alone one winter night in a log cabin in the late 1940s, Jean-Marie Mouchet was waiting for his water to boil and started thinking about why he was there and how he could make a difference that mattered. He was a Catholic missionary in Canada’s North and could see the negative effect the Europeans were having on the Indigenous population. Wanting to do something about it, he resolved to help Indigenous youth reconnect with the land and their traditional values yet provide them with a means to adapt to the social and cultural change that was on the horizon. He started something simple – a skiing program. The individual and snow in harmony. Jean-Marie’s Territorial Experimental Ski Training (TEST) program yielded multiple Olympians, made cross-country skiing the fastest-growing winter sport in Canada, and placed both Northern and Canadian skiers on the cross-country skiing world stage. Over the next 60 years it also produced many leaders who helped guide Northern First Nations into the 21st Century and is credited with saving the lives of many residential school survivors. Firth paints a comprehensive and grounded portrait of the man behind the legacy, all upon a backdrop of a Northern landscape in the midst of transition that will appeal to anyone interested in Canadian and Indigenous history.
Author : Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,66 MB
Release : 2009-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429992662
There is a season for all things. . . For Barnaby Skye, legendary guide and man of the borders, it is time to start a new life. For Skye's younger wife, the beautiful Shoshone woman he calls Mary, it is time to find the beloved son she has not seen in seven years. For Skye's half-blood son, North Star, it is time to discover who he is. And for Skye's older Crow wife, Victoria, the whole world is spinning out of control. In this sweeping novel of the early West, Skye and his wives and son cope with radical change as the wilderness vanishes, the buffalo are slaughtered, and the government puts the tribes on reservation lands. How can people born and bred to tribal life learn to live another way? Their struggle takes the Skyes from the Crazy Mountains in Montana to St. Louis and the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, wrestling with the tide of settlers and the new settlements that dot the western plains and mountains - a tide that leaves no good place for a veteran borders man with two Indian wives and a mixed-blood son. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Milton C. Sernett
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815629153
North Star Country is the story of the remarkable transformation of Upstate New York's famous 'Burned over District;' where the flames of religious revival sparked an abolitionist movement that eventually burst into the conflagration of the Civil War. Milton C. Sernett details the regional presence of African Americans from the pre-Revolutionary War era through the Civil War, both as champions of liberty and as beneficiaries of a humanitarian spirit generated from evangelical impulses. He includes in his narrative the struggles of great abolitionists—among them Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Gerrit Smith, Beriah Green, Jermain Loguen, and Samuel May—and of many lesser-known characters who rescued fugitives from slave hunters, maintained safe houses along the Underground Railroad, and otherwise furthered the cause of freedom both regionally and in the nation as a whole. Sernett concludes with a compelling examination of the moral choices made during the Civil War by upstate New Yorkers—both black and white—and of the post-Appomattox campaign to secure freedom for the newly emancipated.
Author : Victor Ullman
Publisher : Boston : Beacon Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 31,12 MB
Release : 1969
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
"More than a century ago, one man with deep convictions and a country with benign ideals combined to create a place where black self-emancipation, black freedom, could flourish. The man was William King, a slaveowner and Presbyterian minister educated to the stern moralities of Edinburgh. The country was Canada and Look to the North Star is a vivid account of Buxton, the community in western Ontario which the Reverend Mr. King and his slaves founded in 1849 as a haven for black fugitives, both slave and free, in the harsh years before the Civil War."--Jacket.
Author : Karly Lane
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,84 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1459616413
Since her divorce a year ago, Kate Thurston feels like she's lurched from one disaster to another. Her teenage daughter, Georgia, seems to have morphed into a monster overnight, and her son Liam breaks her heart with his sad brown eyes. When Kate receives news that her grandfather has bequeathed her North Star, the vast property which has been in her family for generations, it feels like the perfect opportunity to flee the hectic pace of city life for a calmer rural existence.
Author : Robert Morgan
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,56 MB
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1616206454
In his latest historical novel, bestselling author Robert Morgan brings to full and vivid life the story of Jonah Williams, who, in 1850, on his eighteenth birthday, flees the South Carolina plantation on which he was born a slave. He takes with him only a few stolen coins, a knife, and the clothes on his back--no shoes, no map, no clear idea of where to head, except north, following a star that he prays will be his guide. Hiding during the day and running through the night, Jonah must elude the men sent to capture him and the bounty hunters out to claim the reward on his head. There is one person, however, who, once on his trail, never lets him fully out of sight: Angel, herself a slave, yet with a remarkably free spirit. In Jonah, she sees her own way to freedom, and so sets out to follow him. Bristling with breathtaking adventure, Chasing the North Star is deftly grounded in historical fact yet always gripping and poignant as the story follows Jonah and Angel through the close calls and narrow escapes of a fearsome world. It is a celebration of the power of the human spirit to persevere in the face of great adversity. And it is Robert Morgan at his considerable best.
Author : Heidi McCrary
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 26,29 MB
Release : 2020-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1631527584
Germany, 1940. While struggling to survive at an orphanage, young Didi crosses paths with a rebellious, quirky girl who will either help her escape a life of abuse and uncertainty or lead her down an even darker path. Fast-forward to 1970. With help from a worn leather journal, another young girl learns the story of Didi, who escaped war-torn Germany for a better life in America—except her life didn’t turn out as expected. The stories of these two girls intertwine and eventually collide one Christmas night when Didi, all grown up, finally remembers the secret she buried long ago. Chasing North Star looks back at a time when four free-range siblings, cigarettes in hand, roamed the streets ’til sunrise and hid from a gun-toting, mentally ill mother who couldn’t help herself. Stingray bicycles, transistor radios, and late nights in the cemetery—just another day in Alamo. That is, until the youngest sibling stumbles upon Didi’s story.